Acques Chirac called as a witness in two "business"

Acques Chirac called as a witness in two "business"

Jacques Chirac called as a witness in two

Former President Jacques Chirac, already under investigation in the first case of fictitious jobs, is expected to testify in two other legal cases of electoral fraud and embezzlement for the period when he was mayor of Paris, between 1977 and 1995.
Former President Jacques Chirac, already under investigation in the first case of fictitious jobs, is expected to testify in two other legal cases of electoral fraud and embezzlement for the period when he was mayor of Paris, between 1977 and 1995.

His entourage confirmed to Reuters that the examining magistrate Jean-Marie d'Huy, in charge of the investigation into the embezzlement of funds to the company printing para-municipal Sempap Paris, had sent him a letter informing him it would be heard by a single witness, and the caller to find a date.

"The president will travel to the convening", it was said to Reuters. The former Head of State does not feel concerned by this affair, says one.

Open it a decade ago, this instruction has shown that several million Swiss francs were diverted from the Sempap coffers between 1987 and 1995 by Jacques Brats, its managing director, who died in 2001.

The funds have landed in accounts in Switzerland before being invested in a particular hotel chain in Polynesia. The hypothesis of a hidden financing of the RPR was discussed.

Among other disputed costs included free manufacture of greeting cards for Bernadette Chirac under his tenure as General Counsel of the Corrèze, for a relatively small amount of money.

The investigation also revealed that Jacques Chirac had been alerted by several reports of the inspection of the City of Paris on malfeasance attributed to Jacques Brats, but had refused to relieve him of his duties despite the opinion of its services.

FALSE VOTERS

In addition, one of the civil parties in the trial appeal from electoral fraud in the third district of Paris in 1989 and 1995 called for Jacques Chirac to be called as a witness at the hearing on May 14, announced his lawyer.

Jacques Chirac is at the Elysée Palace, he never testified in this case as in others, as it benefited from a full criminal immunity.

An environmentalist who is a civil case, Philippe Vicherat, asked the prosecutor general in Paris quoted the former head of state. If this request is not followed, there will be a direct quote, told Reuters counsel for the militant, Me Pierre-Francois Divier.

The former Head of State "has not received a call in this case, he will see when it is requested," says his entourage. The trial will focus primarily on appeal Guy Legris, ex-boss of the federation RPR in Paris and close to the era of Jacques Chirac, who was convicted in the first instance to one year suspended prison term and a fine of 2,000 euros.

The other defendants in the case will be referred by an appeal from the civil parties and the court can not review that the damages to which they were sentenced, not the criminal verdict.

After 16 years of proceedings, the former mayor of the third district UDF Jacques Dominati was acquitted for lack of evidence but the court had instead found guilty of electoral fraud ten other defendants, including his son Philippe Dominati, aged 52, of UMP senator Capital (six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 2,000 euros), and Guy Legris.

The court said in its ruling that fraud by listing hundreds of "false" voters had existed in 1989 when the victory of the RPR-UDF list in the Third District had allowed Jacques Chirac to obtain a "grand slam" in the twenty arrondissements, which had revived his political career.

Since November, Jacques Chirac is under investigation for "misappropriation of public funds" in a case for compensation to her office as mayor of dozens of "officers" who have carried out any task. Already interviewed twice, the former president is expected to be summoned again for questioning and risk a lawsuit in Corrections.